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The largest seed in the world is the seed of the Coco de Mer, also known as the Lodoicea.

The mature fruit is usually 40 - 50 cm (15.7 - 19.6 inches) in diameter and usually weighs 15 - 30 kg (33 - 66 pounds), and contains the largest seed in the plant kingdom, which also makes it the largest nut in the world.

It produces the largest wild fruit so far recorded, weighing up to 42 kg, the mature seeds weighing up to 17.6 kg are also the world's heaviest.

The fruit, which requires 6 - 7 years to mature and a further two years to germinate, is sometimes also referred to as the sea coconut, love nut, double coconut, coco fesse, or Seychelles nut.

The fruit is used in Siddha medicine, Ayurvedic medicine and also in traditional Chinese medicine. In food, it is typically found as flavor enhancers for soups in southern Chinese cuisine, namely cuisine around the Canton country

While they are used an extraordinary amount, in a huge number of forms of written language, there is one that is used in almost all languages and variations thereof.

Have you figured it out yet?

What if I told you to look between the words...

Yes, that’s right.

The most commonly used piece of punctuation on the planet is the most very humble space.

The space between words is considered punctuation, despite there being the lack of anything.

Though just try and imagine how hard it would be to read or understand anything without it, while there are certainly languages that don’t use them: Lao and Burmese for instance, even they have now been adapted to the modern world and often make use of the space now.

To end this out I’m going to give a tally of how many times each piece of present punctuation was used in the statement above:

This rabbit is bred largely for their long wool, which is silky and soft. At only 11 microns in diameter it is finer and softer than cashmere.

They produce more wool for their size than a sheep and therefore must be groomed regularly, else they very quickly turn into what appears to be a living pom-pom.

The rabbits were popular pets with French royalty in the mid-18th century, and spread to other parts of Europe by the end of the century. They first appeared in the United States in the early 20th century.

Their wool is held in high esteem as one of the best in the world, being so much finer and lighter than almost all others.

Oreo sandwich cookies were originally an imitation of the original American sandwich cookie: Hydrox.

Originally debuting in 1908, Hydrox cookies were manufactured by Sunshine Biscuits for over ninety years. The Oreo cookie was introduced later in 1912, as an off-brand imitation of Hydrox.

Oreo however gained traction and ended up surpassing Hydrox to become the premiere sandwich cookie in America. With many coming to believe that Hydrox were a cheap imitation of Oreo.

There are a number of reasons as to why the Oreo surpassed Hydrox, such as, compared to Oreos, Hydrox cookies have a less-sweet filling and a crunchier cookie that gets less soggy in milk.

Or it’s rather clinical sounding name, which was derived from the atoms that make up the water molecule (hydrogen and oxygen), with the intention of the name being to convey "purity and goodness.". It just doesn’t sound as good as Oreo.

In the 1993 film “Groundhog Day”, starring Bill Murray, the president of the Groundhog Club, Buster Green, whose one great purpose in life is to make sure that the Groundhog Day festival goes as smoothly as possible, is played by Murray’s brother: Brian Doyle-Murray.

So all interactions between them, including Buster requesting the police shoot Bill's character of Phil instead of the titular Groundhog. Are in reality between brothers.

Based on experience with my brother, I would probably say shoot him instead too...

In the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6, an agent is an informant to an intelligence officer, which was Bonds actual job, he can’t be an agent as he actually works for MI6.

An intelligence officer is a person employed by SIS to collect, compile and/or analyse information which is of use to that organisation. An informant is a person who provides privileged information about a person or organization to an agency, that they are not a member to.

So there you are SIS actually call their staff officers, agents are informants who are not members of staff.

Intelligence officer just doesn’t sound as good, makes it sound like he’s an accountant:

Godwin's law is an Internetadage that asserts that as an online discussion, or more specifically an argument, grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1, that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to the Nazis, Adolf Hitler or his deeds.

It is also generally agreed that upon the comparison of such topics in the discussion then they that have brought it up have lost and the discussion should end.

That’s not to say such comparisons can’t be made with justification, it is simply identifying those situations in which it has no pertaining relation.

During the war, large numbers of British airmen were felled over enemy airspace and then held as prisoners of war behind enemy lines. Germany, however, in part as a nod to the Geneva Convention, allowed humanitarian groups like the Red Cross to distribute care packages to those prisoners.

Including "games and pastimes."

The Allies took military advantage of this human kindness, to send the prisoners Monopoly sets, contained within the sets were numerous tools that could be used in an escape.

Compasses and files were both disguised as playing pieces. The money, in the form of French, German, and Italian bank notes were of course sneakily hidden below the Monopoly money. The maps were ingeniously concealed within the board itself.

The game was too innocent to raise suspicion,

The "special edition" Monopoly sets would be designated with a red dot on the Free Parking space, something that would look to anyone who didn't know about the trick like a benign printing error.

Thus the prisoners, with their new “game pieces”, could begin plotting their escape, after having

destroyed the remains of the board game so that no one would catch on.

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Keeper of Stories

6 months ago

FUCK YOU. YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVER.....wait you mean that's the wrong FU? ..... You're saying it had a different meaning than what I thought? .......... Oh..... Happy Featured User. I thought you were someone else.

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6 months ago

I probably get the first one more often than any other...

Thank you.

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7 months ago

Happy FU Day!

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7 months ago

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Thanks, I'm gonna keep doing what I do best and share my pointless knowledge with everyone.